On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 03:47:26 +0300 Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, John D. Baker wrote: > > > I've been wondering what the "constty" device was all about. I've been > > afraid to touch it since there's no documentation for it (nor "console" > > either). The closest I can get is "tty(4)" and "ttys(5)", but they don't > > describe any particular attributes of "console" nor how it relates to > > "constty". > The thread is here: > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2003/10/03/0008.html My statement stands, then. There is no documentation for "constty" nor "console": $ apropos constty apropos: No relevant results obtained. Please make sure that you spelled all the terms correctly or try using different keywords. $ apropos console [lots of irrelevant synopses simply because the word "console" appears in the manual page.] $ man 4 console man: no entry for console in the manual. $ man 4 constty man: no entry for constty in the manual. If it's not in the online (i.e. locally-installed) manual pages, it doesn't exist. Even "tty(4)" merely implies the notion of "console"--and only then in description of the "TIOCCONS" ioctl. -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]consolidated[flyspeck]net OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645